Record Details
| NHER Number: | 24323 |
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| Type of record: | Find Spot |
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| Name: | Iron Age coins (Bressingham, poorly located) |
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Summary
Three Iron Age coins.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | Not displayed |
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| Parish: | BRESSINGHAM, SOUTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full description
1987? Purchased as from Bressingham.
Iron Age coins.
Copper alloy minim not known but see Essex.
Obverse; Two? Boars nose to nose.
Reverse; horse with huge feet.
Probably copper alloy core of silver plated Iceni. If so, late pattern horse variant with horse to left.
Trinovantes Mack 253.
Obverse; bearded head of Jupiter AMMON CUN(OBELIS)
Reverse; lion crouching below tree CAM.
See [1].
Identified A. Gregory, (NAU)
W. Milligan (NCM) 26 January 1988.
Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
Associated Finds
- COIN (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
- COIN (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| --- | Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card. |
Related records - none
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